(Floyd Del Muro) Is your data out-of-date and your report backlog still a backlog? Is your BI technical department larger than two people, and do they spend most of their time redefining your data to make the solution work? Does your technical team spend hours upon hours installing program fixes? Do

(Antonio Cangiano) Before leaving on a recent business trip to Italy I begun working on a TextMate bundle for DB2. Here I’ll introduce it in the hope that it will interest some TextMate and DB2 users.

(Sundari Voruganti) This article takes you through the installation of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse on a Linux partition on System z. Learn about pre-installation requirements, then walk through the steps for a successful installation.

(Alex Woodie) Developers who use DB2 Connect to access databases running on System i midrange systems and System z mainframes from applications running on Windows, Unix, and Linux systems will gain better support for triggers and stored procedures, among other enhancements, with the latest release o

In this one-hour Webcast, IT Market Strategy Analyst Merv Adrian and Arvind Krishna, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Information Management Products, talk with TechWeb about how companies are using new data management technologies to save on data administration, storage, servers, energy consumption,

(Kirsten A. Larsen, Jason Cu, Susan Malaika and Michael Schenker) In this article, set up and populate a small XML database, and implement COBOL stored procedures for basic operations on the data. Use the included download bundle with ready-to-install samples to explore the concepts of this article,

(Jeff Berger and Paolo Bruni) The dollar-to-data ratio of solid-state drives (SSDs) is still high when compared with the dollar-to-data ratio of traditional spinning disks in the enterprise storage market; however, the SSDs ratio is expected to improve with investments in the not too distant future.

(Willie Favero) Data warehousing is again becoming a well-discussed hot topic in the mainframe world. Warehousing has always been popular on System z, though it seems few want to talk about it. With all the “green” talk about System z and the rising cost of power to run large server farms (assuming

(Diana Lau, Nita Maheswaren and Rebecca Gong) This article series shows you how to create a CBA in Business Space powered by WebSphere, and then make governed changes to the application logic using Business Process Agility widgets.

(Dave Beulke) Every year at the IDUG conference the users, consultants, vendors and IBMers get together and talk about the best database for performance and the lowest total cost of ownership – DB2. This year was great because it seems that almost everyone is at DB2 Version 8 for z/OS or going to Ve